All Justice Info articles since 2015
All articles published on Justice Info (original and republications) are displayed on this page in chronological order. Only our Hirondelle News archives and the AFP news feed (except for dispatches edited by us) are excluded from this list.
Massaquoi affair: epilogue to a fiasco
2 February 2024
by Thierry Cruvellier
On January 31, the Turku Court of Appeal in Finland confirmed the acquittal of Gibril Massaquoi on all charges. The former Sierra Leonean rebel commander was accused of multiple crimes committed in Liberia between 1999 and 2003. A [...]
1 February 2024
by Julia Crawford
February 1 marks three years since the coup in Myanmar, where the military regime is accused of widespread abuses against civilians. It is also more than six years since 700,000 Rohingya were forced to flee to Bangladesh. With the [...]
1 February 2024
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Swedish lawyer of Palestinian origin Nada Kiswanson has for the last 15 years provided evidence to various international institutions including the International Criminal Court, in order, she says, to “bring to an end violations c [...]
30 January 2024
by Marlies Stappers + Sanne Weber
In December 2023, a historical trial took place in Leuven, Belgium. Five high-level officials from Guatemala’s military and political apparatus stood trial for murder, enforced disappearance and torture of Belgian missionaries in [...]
29 January 2024
by Matthias Raynal
View from hospital and morgue during Guinea’s stadium massacre
Morgues overflowing with corpses and hospitals submerged by the flood of wounded. This is the picture painted by two senior health officials at the time of the 2009 stadium massacre testifying in the major trial that has resumed i [...]
26 January 2024
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
The good and the bad about Lafarge case
There is the Lundin trial going on in Sweden. And there is the Lafarge case slowly moving forward in France. These are arguably the two most high-profile trials for alleged international crimes by prominent corporations and/or cor [...]
26 January 2024
by AFP
The ICJ calls on Israel to prevent "genocide" in Gaza
On 26 January, the International Court of Justice declared itself competent to rule on the dispute between South Africa and Israel concerning the situation in Gaza. It ordered Israel to take "all measures within its power to preve [...]
25 January 2024
by Mariam Sankanu
Witness hearings end in Sonko’s trial
Eleven witnesses have testified in the trial of Ousman Sonko, a former Interior minister of The Gambia accused of crimes against humanity before a Swiss court. Evidence covered alleged sexual violence, two murders, the brutal repr [...]
23 January 2024
by Olfa Belhassine
Attacks resume against Tunisia’s Truth Commission
The former president of the UN-backed Truth and Dignity Commission, Sihem Bensedrine, on January 12 responded to the Tunisian government's latest accusations of "falsification". Attacks on the commission resumed immediately in med [...]
22 January 2024
by Mariam Sankanu
The order to “shoot” and “kill” Solo Sandeng
The trial of Gambia’s former Minister of Interior Ousman Sonko is entering its third week in Switzerland. The court heard evidence on the violent repression of April 2016 protests and the death of the opposition leader Solo Sanden [...]
19 January 2024
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Convicting presidents: the Suriname case
Desi Bouterse first ruled Suriname as a military dictator in the 1980s. He came back to power as a democratically-elected president from 2010 to 2020. But the dark past of the dictatorship caught up with him. He was prosecuted for [...]
19 January 2024
by Vladyslava Kobko
In pre-2022 occupied Donetsk, a prison’s hell
Denys Kulikovskyi was the warden of the prison "Izolyatsiya" in occupied Donetsk between 2014 and 2018, prior to Russia’s full invasion. Early January he was found guilty of torturing prisoners of war and civilians. The trial was [...]
18 January 2024
by Mariam Sankanu
Sonko trial: who is responsible for the murder of Baba Jobe?
On January 15, for the first time publicly, a former prison guard gave evidence before a Swiss court on the murder of former Gambian businessman and politician Baba Jobe while detained in 2011. At the time, the accused Ousman Sonk [...]
16 January 2024
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia's Awá Indians, closer to justice but plagued by violence
In 2023 the Special Jurisdiction for Peace issued groundbreaking findings on the crimes committed against Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples in Colombia, especially for the Awá. It has notably included the war crimes of destru [...]
15 January 2024
by Janet H. Anderson
Israel-Palestine: the legal battle has started
On January 11 and 12, lawyers for South Africa and Israel presented their arguments before the International Court of Justice. South Africa is alleging that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. For now it [...]
12 January 2024
by Mariam Sankanu
Ousman Sonko faces the first witness
The trial of former Gambian Interior minister Ousman Sonko started in Switzerland on January 8. While he denied all allegations against him, the accused had to listen to the first witness, the widow of a soldier he is accused of h [...]
11 January 2024
by Justice Info
A window onto Justice Info’s editorial team
This was a first. Since the creation of Justice Info in 2015, its correspondents had never been able to get together, but it happened at the end of November. Not all of them were present at the team workshops followed by a public [...]
11 January 2024
by Janet H. Anderson + Margherita Capacci
The controversy on “intermediaries” hits back in the ICC Yekatom trial
Alfred Yekatom's defence opened its case early December in The Hague, with a couple of witnesses and a heavy artillery charge against the International Criminal Court prosecutor, accused of having once again used intermediaries an [...]